I’d love to see a community dedicated to sharing fan work, like cosplay, fanfiction or fanart. Right now, quark’s seems too off topic for that, DI and Risa are obviously not the right place, and the main Trek community seems to be focused on serious discussion about the shows.
After catching up on Echoes, I can say with some confidence that this isn’t the book for me. Marc Guggenheim has never been a writer I’ve been a fan of, and Oleg Chudakov’s art isn’t really a selling feature either. All the characters looked as though they were drawn based off a description alone, and the fact that everyone is wearing TMP uniforms makes them difficult to distinguish from one another. I feel like I should be able to tell if a character is supposed to be Bones or Kirk just by looking at them.
Anyways, with regards to issue three specifically, the story seems fine. Alternate universe Chekov – who doesn’t have the accent that Guggenheim painfully writes into prime Chekov’s dialog, and is named Luthor Akris despite the fact that alternate Uhura is still Nyota Uhura – is negotiating with the Romulans, and is clearly outsmarting them, for access to their technology in exchange for his Bajoran orb doomsday weapon. Alternate Uhura goes off mission to try and kill Akris, and prime Chekov gets shot in the process, but Sulu, and alternate Uhura are able get him on Akris’ ship to escape back to the Enterprise outside Romulan territory, leaving Kirk and prime Uhura behind.
The solicitation copy claimed that Spock and Bones were going to devise a plan to save everyone, but all they actually do is Spock gives Bones shit for wanting to retire, claiming every life lost because he wasn’t there to save them is his fault. Once Sulu and alternate Uhura get Chekov back to the ship, Bones is able to sew Chekov back up, but he losses a bunch of blood, and wouldn’t you know it, he has a rare condition where he can only get a blood transfusion from an exact genetic match, and the reason they don’t have any of his blood already on board is because this is just a shakedown cruise where they never expected to see any action.
I am pot committed to finishing this story now, but it is definitely not as fun as the other Trek comics currently being released.
@andthenthreemore@startrek Good one — I’d also recommend the Hornblower series (although they are nowhere as good as the books IMO). Supposedly Roddenberry once described Star Trek as “Hornblower in space”.
(But really, read the books — the character in the novels is fascinatingly complex, an introvert full of self-doubt who is also incredibly talented.)
Movie recommendation: Run Silent, Run Deep. It’s a WW2 Pacific theater submarine movie with Clark Gable and Burt Lancaster. But it’s directed by Robert Wise (Star Trek: TMP) and the story beats will be recognizable by fans of both TMP and Wrath of Khan. It also focuses pretty heavily on the lower decks crew.
A fine and beautiful actress, but my problem with the portrayal of T’Pring is we know she’s going to end up a psychopath who tries to get Spock killed for his property, so why is SNW trying to portray her in a good light?
It’s a character arc. Her love/commitment to Spock falters when she realizes how much of him she gets vs The Federation. Time helps all wounds fester. Eventually, she wants out and Jody is there saying he can take her. Fuckin’ Jody, man…
Never heard of the company or the system, is this any good? I tried running off brand trek with SWN before and it went ok, but I’d love a system for running specifically trek themed adventures… A solo system is great too, since I only have one player besides myself!
This might be a reach out of /10, but my wife and I are about a dozen episodes into “Deadwood” (HBO Western from the early 2010’s?) and I can’t help but let her in on how it reminds me of DS9 in how every character is fleshed out in this backwater outpost. It’s so good. Naturally she just looks at me like I’m speaking some dead language, but for any DS9 fans, cheggitout
I really enjoyed the stargate movie, but the series was not for me.
I get hard low budget 90s tv feelings from it.
Possible spoilers below….
They recast two great actors in the movie with people who look and act nothing like they did in the movie. I heard they later joked about it and fixed it, but I couldn’t not get that far
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